dadkins
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Told ya!
Doomed before it even gets started! LMAO!
DUH! |
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Chris 313
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| said by dadkins  :Told ya! Doomed before it even gets started! LMAO! DUH! Agreed. If you can't roll out a DRM'd product as good a quality as un-DRM'd pirate content, it'll fail every time. |
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Kearnstd
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and to think with TVshows its not even Piracy.
whats sad is the whole marketing engine of the MPAA and RIAA tries to say piracy makes worse copies and yet atm the legit source has the low quality then the grey market source(i dont consider torrents of TV Shows piracy as well its not much different then giving the VHS tape of the show to a friend)
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Kilroy
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| It isn't failure, it is a feature
Since DRM is, cough, cough, all for the benefit of the user it is working fantastic by preventing unauthorized viewing. Clearing showing who owns the content.
said by "Engadget" :
DRM failure, where over 50% of the purchases were rendered useless
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How hard does DRM have to bite before business abandon it? |
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Anonymous
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I was surprised to see they offer some free stuff like Battlestations Midway. |
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Karl Bode
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1 edit | Yeah I'm still not sure what to make of that:
»www.bittorrent.com/users/eidos/t···715a6bc/
A new game, being offered free?
Is that a link to a pirated copy being pushed via 'legit' store front? |
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guitarzan
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Re: It isn't failure, it is a feature
said by Kilroy :Since DRM is, cough, cough, all for the benefit of the user it is working fantastic by preventing unauthorized viewing. Clearing showing who owns the content. said by "Engadget" :
DRM failure, where over 50% of the purchases were rendered useless
DRM works so well. In fact it prevents authorized viewing. This sure is great quality and highly valuable to customers. NOT !!
DRM has two rules.
1st) read Dadkins post
2nd) re-read Dadkins post. 
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theowl
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Re: Free stuff
Interesting no note of it at all on the official site either. »www.battlestations.net/home/ |
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Karl Bode
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2 edits | In fact looking through it looks like all the games are free...and this includes a lot of new titles....
Edit: Ok, looks like they've partnered with Try Media and most of these games are adware crammed trial versions that I think lock down after a bit, and unlock if you activate them online via credit card (but probably still spew ads).
Pretty clever I guess, though misleading in a way. "Look, we can offer free stuff too! Just like Torrentspy.com!" |
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dadkins
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2 edits | 
WAY TO GO BT!!! |
CAUTION!!!
Battle of Britain = BAD!!!
See pic!
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02 | Me thinks Bram should have just offered the software to others and sat back and collected royalties while sipping Mojitos. Whoever advised him to open a storefront under his product name should be smacked with a cold Cod.... |
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peerimpact
join:2005-11-07
Londonderry, VT | reply to dadkins
That is not really Bittorent's fault its Trymendia's who package the games for Bittorent and many other consumer sites and their content partners are the ones that put Adware in the games . |
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guitarzan
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Cool a game for free.!! I'll get right on that..NOT!!!
Those who had the distinct pleasure of getting root kitted through the purchase of legit Sony BMI Cd's. One can just imagine, the trojan-ed, root kitted, virus, ad infested mess offered in a free game. Just my opinion though. Thanks, but no thanks
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Anonymous
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So i have been downloading a trial game for the last 4 days?
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02 | I think so. But keep downloading and tell me what it does and how it works...I'm curious since that's such a big file.....(just leave your spyware protection on)  |
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dadkins
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I have no worries here, I tried one download... it was crap!
Acronis can make it go away if I was to have ran it, but avast didn't like it so it's toast! 
Not that it would have been allowed to run anyways... something would have caught it. LOL!
Wanna know something ironic?
The REAL warezed games are clean compared to this! WTF?
Illegal is safer than legal? 
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Anonymous
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| Try Media has a new feature 'in game advertising'
Wow I just can't believe I was able to play games without it until now!
Karl the thing is I have invested a lot of time downloading this POS. I could have downloaded a pirated (read working) copy of the game for free. |
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02 | reply to dadkins
It's still easier for users to either pirate a game, or order it from Amazon....until they either make DRM transparent (or eliminate it entirely), I just don't see these services doing anything of worth.... |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | if any one noticed Oblivion had no copy protection and sold INSANELY well
you would think it would catch on but no |
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guitarzan
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1 edit | reply to dadkins
said by dadkins :Wanna know something ironic? The REAL warezed games are clean compared to this! WTF? Illegal is safer than legal? LOL, such irony is a beautiful thing.
Warezed games offers a clean bill of health, removes the Cd check. Legally purchased games should come stock this way, because it offers value by protecting the Cd at the same time.
In addition to being fully functional, no activation required, hassle free version, just install then frag the chit out of anything that moves. :P
Edit spelling error correction meant value, not valve.
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